Citizenship was granted to 109,504 persons...

NEW CITIZENS.

July 4, 1986

OTTAWA — NEW CITIZENS. Citizenship was granted to 109,504 persons in 1984, a new government report says. Britons were the largest group, 15,190. Close behind were Vietnamese, 14,747. Then followed China, 8,629, Portugal, 5,432, the Philippines, 5,144 and India, 4,532. About 20,000 of the new citizens were children. Secretary of State David Crombie's said no one was granted citizenship as a hardship case. This provision of the Citizenship Act is rarely used.